Doll head



Dec. l0, 1940.

DOLL HEAD Filed Feb. 10, 1940 INVENTOR ATTORNEW" s. HOFFMAN 2,224,680 Y Patented Dec. 10, 1940 UNITED STATES DOLL HEAD Samuel I-Ioman,

South Orange, N. J.

Application February l0, 194i), Serial No. 318,251

2 Claims.

My invention relates to new and useful improvements in doll heads and particularly to a new and useful means of mounting moveable eyes in the same.

An object of the invention is to provide simple and convenient means for mounting moveable eyes in doll heads;

A further object of the invention is to provide a new and useful mounting for sleeping eyes;

l A further object of the invention is to provide new and useful means for balancing and rotating sleeping eyes;

A further object of the invention is to provide u a simple and useful eye for doll heads.

I accomplish these and other objects and advantages by my invention, a preferred embodiment of which is illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which l Figure 1 is a vertical section of the front or 'J' face portion of a doll head;

Figure 2 is a section on the line 2--2 in Figure l, and

Figure 3 is a plan View of the inside of the portion of the doll head shown in Figure 1.

Similar characters of reference refer to like parts throughout the several views.

My improved doll head is preferably formed of sheet metal stamped out in two sections, the front or face section thereof being shown in the drawing, and the back section, not shown, being shaped and decorated to represent the baci; of the head.

The two sections, as above described, are joined together by means of lugs I at their marginal edges.

The front or face section 2, is stamped out and decorated to represent a face and is provided with eye openings 3.

Within the face portion 2 of the doll head there are provided a pair of hollow sheet metal eyes 4 positioned in the said eye openings 3 and rotatable therein. The eyes 4 are set on a connecting plate 5 having a section 6 bent downward and backward to form a counterbalance weight 'I which normally holds the decorated portion of the eyes 4 so that the representation of the pupil of the eye is normally positioned at the eye openings 3 when the doll is held in an upright position. The eyes 4 and the weight portion 'I are mounted on a shaft 8 carried at its ends in lugs 9, B cut out and bent up from a plate Iii, the end sections II, II of which rest against the inner wall of the face portion of the head at the sides thereof' and are engaged and bound thereto by lugs I2, I2 formed on the marginal edges of the said face portion of the head, and which are inserted in seats in marginal edges of the plate I0.

The eyes 4 are decorated below the medial horizontal line thereof with the representation of the pupil of an eye and the portion thereof 5 above the horizontal medial line is blank or flesh colored as is well understood in the art, so that when thelower portion of the eye is brought to the eye opening in the head, the eyes will appear to be open and when the blank or flesh colored portion thereof is brought to the eye opening, the eye will appear to be closed as in sleeping.

The device being thus assembled, the weight 1 will hold before the eye openings 3 that portion l5 of the eyes 4 which is decorated to represent the pupil of the eye and the eyes will appear to be open. When the doll is placed in a reclining or horizontal position, the weight I will cause the eyes 4 to rotate on the shaft 8 and the plain or 20 flesh colored portion of the eyes 4 will be presented at the eye openings and thereby present the appearance of closed eyes as when sleeping.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim is: Y

l. Adoll head comprising in combination a face section and a back section, lugs and lug seats on the marginal edges of the said sections whereby they are bound together, eye apertures in the said face section, a plate within the said face section having a flat unbent central section extending from side to side thereof across the eye apertures and spaced therefrom and having bent over ends forming legs resting against the side walls of said face section and extending to the marginal. edges thereof, cut out seats in the ends of the said legs, lugs on the marginal edges of the face section and seated in the last mentioned seats, a pair of cut out ears on the above mentioned central section of said plate, a shaft carried by said ears, a pair of rotatable eyes on said shaft and rotatable in said eye apertures and weight means attached to said eyes.

2. In a device of the character described, the combination of a sheet metal doll head, eye apertures therein, a plate within the said doll head having a flat unbent central section extending from wall to wall thereof across the said eye apertures and spaced therefrom and having bent over ends forming legs resting against the said side walls, cut out seats in the ends of the said legs and lugs on the walls of said head in said seats, a pair of ears on the first mentioned central section, eyes mounted in said ears and rotatable in said eye apertures and weight means attached to said eyes.

SAMUEL HOFFMAN. 

